SUMMARY *** NOTE: If you are reporting a crash, please try to attach a backtrace with debug symbols. See https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Debugging/How_to_create_useful_crash_reports *** STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Install from official fedora repositories 2. Start application 3. OBSERVED RESULT Application options are incomplete (no option to select area, only "full window" and "window under mouse" are there) EXPECTED RESULT Application window to be complete SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: macOS: Linux/KDE Plasma: (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: KDE Frameworks Version: Qt Version: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This is a known issue on Wayland, where Spectacle relies on private API from KWin. We could perhaps make this obvious in the UI somehow, to set expectations accordingly.
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > This is a known issue on Wayland, where Spectacle relies on private API from > KWin. > > We could perhaps make this obvious in the UI somehow, to set expectations > accordingly. Thank you so much for the information. I'll shed a tear, perhaps when I'm able see about switching my surface over to Plasma if the tablet functionality is there. I use plasma on my other machines and I always have spectacle open, so I'm pretty disappointed I can't use it on gnome, but understand why.
*** Bug 468399 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/graphics/spectacle/-/merge_requests/229
Git commit 6e5a3f392324e5ae310709225540d37448539569 by Noah Davis. Committed on 18/04/2023 at 13:43. Pushed by ndavis into branch 'master'. Warn when screenshot effect isn't available on wayland, exit if no GUI M +1 -0 src/CMakeLists.txt M +18 -0 src/Main.cpp A +50 -0 src/ScreenShotEffect.cpp [License: LGPL(v2.0+)] A +20 -0 src/ScreenShotEffect.h [License: LGPL(v2.0+)] https://invent.kde.org/graphics/spectacle/commit/6e5a3f392324e5ae310709225540d37448539569
Git commit dc500534298440e3f16440717ae06d53dccf1415 by Noah Davis. Committed on 18/04/2023 at 13:45. Pushed by ndavis into branch 'release/23.04'. Warn when screenshot effect isn't available on wayland, exit if no GUI The string is not translatable because of the translatable string freeze. Maybe if we get a string freeze exception, we can make it translatable. (cherry picked from commit 6e5a3f392324e5ae310709225540d37448539569) M +1 -0 src/CMakeLists.txt M +18 -0 src/Main.cpp A +50 -0 src/ScreenShotEffect.cpp [License: LGPL(v2.0+)] A +20 -0 src/ScreenShotEffect.h [License: LGPL(v2.0+)] https://invent.kde.org/graphics/spectacle/commit/dc500534298440e3f16440717ae06d53dccf1415
*** Bug 486978 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***